Word: player
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee recommends that any player who has been disqualified the second time in a season shall be declared ineligible to play football for one year from the date of the second offense...
...Unsportsmanlike conduct" includes the use of abusive or insulting language to opponents or officials. The penalty is suspension during the remainder of the game. Following is the definition o folding. "The players on the side which has possession of the ball shall not hold, block or otherwise obstruct their opponents except with the body, but a player running with the ball may ward off an opponent with the hands...
...While a feeling of rivalry must exist to bring out the best ability of every player, there is no reason for the brutality which has marred many games played upon the athletic fields of the larger educational institutions. Let the players remember that they are friends and obviate the objectionable features. If they do this, Harvard will continue to foster the game and be one of its patrons. Otherwise, it must eventually be abolished from the list of games played among our universities...
Many phenomenal stops were made by Ivy at goal. He was the only player on the University team who was not confused by the poor ice and the closeness of the score. Willetts played fairly well, but Dr. Newhall at coverpoint played too far out from his position and often allowed the Princeton forwards to pass him. Pell was extremely slow in following back and M. Newhall at the opposite end did not make sufficient use of the sides. Macleod seldom followed in on Townsend's long shots for goals...
...forward pass will not only result in weakening the defence--in forcing them to play some of their line further back; but it will have a tendency to prevent men in the line from crouching, as they do at present, as it will always be necessary for a player to get quickly be necessary for a player to get quickly to any spot to which the ball may have been passed...